Industry News
World Premiere of Genealogie by Composer Lawrence Dillon
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s Genealogie, in its chamber version for actor, soprano, mezzo, alto, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion will be given its World Premiere performance by the nu ensemble, Ransom Wilson conducting, on Friday, February 5 – 7:30 PM at Watson Chamber Music Hall of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 South Main Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The nu ensemble is the UNCSA student contemporary performance ensemble.
The program will also include Philippe Hersant’s Huit pièces featuring bassoonist Saxton Rose.
This is the chamber version of Part Three of the composer’s Schumann Trilogy, which was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras, including The Idyllwild Arts Academy (CA) Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony and the University of Utah Philharmonia to celebrate the bicentennial of Robert Schumann’s birth in 2010. More about the piece at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/schumann-trilogy.php.
The program notes for the piece read, “Marie, Elise, Julie, Ludwig, Ferdinand, Eugenie, Felix: these were the seven children of Robert and Clara Schumann who survived to adulthood. Their fates are the subject of Genealogie, as told by the Schumann’s youngest daughter and by music critic Richard Aldrich in a 1921 New York Times article. Their stories are woven together with excerpts from Robert and Clara Schumann’s Marriage Diaries in a composition that confronts the residue of genius, concluding with a deeply charged benediction from Eugenie Schumann’s Memoirs.”
Tickets for the February 5 concert are $12 adults / $10 seniors and students. For more information, call 336-721-1945 or visit http://www.uncsa.edu/performances/boxoffice.htm.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, The Juilliard School (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/jan10/LD_nws_010810.pdf. Read his lively Sequenza 21 blog “An Infinite Number of Curves” at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Lawrence Dillon’s music is published by American Composers Alliance. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s Genealogie, in its chamber version for actor, soprano, mezzo, alto, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion will be given its World Premiere performance by the nu ensemble, Ransom Wilson conducting, on Friday, February 5 – 7:30 PM at Watson Chamber Music Hall of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 South Main Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The nu ensemble is the UNCSA student contemporary performance ensemble.
The program will also include Philippe Hersant’s Huit pièces featuring bassoonist Saxton Rose.
This is the chamber version of Part Three of the composer’s Schumann Trilogy, which was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras, including The Idyllwild Arts Academy (CA) Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony and the University of Utah Philharmonia to celebrate the bicentennial of Robert Schumann’s birth in 2010. More about the piece at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/schumann-trilogy.php.
The program notes for the piece read, “Marie, Elise, Julie, Ludwig, Ferdinand, Eugenie, Felix: these were the seven children of Robert and Clara Schumann who survived to adulthood. Their fates are the subject of Genealogie, as told by the Schumann’s youngest daughter and by music critic Richard Aldrich in a 1921 New York Times article. Their stories are woven together with excerpts from Robert and Clara Schumann’s Marriage Diaries in a composition that confronts the residue of genius, concluding with a deeply charged benediction from Eugenie Schumann’s Memoirs.”
Tickets for the February 5 concert are $12 adults / $10 seniors and students. For more information, call 336-721-1945 or visit http://www.uncsa.edu/performances/boxoffice.htm.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, The Juilliard School (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his latest Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/jan10/LD_nws_010810.pdf. Read his lively Sequenza 21 blog “An Infinite Number of Curves” at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Lawrence Dillon’s music is published by American Composers Alliance. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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